The next morning, we walked into town for Mother's Day coffee and met the Gittleman's with their wallet eating dog before heading home to assemble the troups for the annual Mother's day lunch.

As we'd done in previous years
2004
2003
2002
2001
we went to Main Street where we sat at the same table but in different seats as Ben and Sarah were one side Suzanne was at the head and I sat next to Jane even as Ben posed for a few more pictures. We began with Bloody Mary's (as we did last year) and then con queso dip as these family pictures were taken by the waitress who remembered taking our pictures last year as well. Suzanne had salmon Jane had the sandwich Ben had the burger Sarah had the salad and I had vegetarian chili all of which represented only slight departures from the year before. For dessert, we added carrot cake to the Mississippi mud and the brownie with ice cream from the previous year.

Somehow, I think we'll be going back to Main Street next year.